Letter to the Editor: Trojan Trolley wrongly named

I am writing to express my concern about the grievous misuse of the English language on this campus. I am specifically referring the naming of the new shuttle bus service on campus, known as “Trojan Trolley.” I wish to inform you that this is a misnomer and should be changed. According to Random House Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary found on the second floor of the Ottenheimer Library, a trolley (or trolley car) is “a streetcar propelled electrically by current taken by means of a trolley from a conducting wire strung overhead or running beneath a slot between the tracks.” The device trolley is defined as “a grooved metallic wheel or pulley carried on the end of a pole by an electric car or locomotive, and held in contact with an overhead conductor, usually a suspended wire.” As these vehicles are neither gathering their power from overhead and neither are they electric, they should be renamed to buses promptly.

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